In 2028, a rocket will lift off, taking a payload of rocks into orbit, and send them on a 40 million-mile journey - from Mars to Earth.It will be the first time a rocket has lifted off from a planet other than Earth. The rocket will return samples of the Red Planet currently being collected by Perseverance.The Mars Sample Return mission is a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), which is building a small 'fetch' rover to gather the collected samples.
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